After seeing that everything was normal in the Taoist temple, Wang Meng and his entourage went to the northernmost part of Wuchuan Town, where the Wuchuan Town army trained and stayed for the longest time.

Since Wang Meng had previously proposed to Ling Hao the conjecture of wanting to implement the "military town system", Ling Hao also agreed with this idea, although he was also well aware of the disadvantages of the military town system in the past, but at present, this is the best convenient way to integrate the military and the people.

The military town system was a form of local administration that began to be established in the northern region at the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms. At that time, the northern regimes separated the garrisons of military points, their families, and the population under their control from the common people, and called them "townspeople", and the districts under their jurisdiction were called "military towns", and their governors were called "town generals". The town will be responsible for the military and civil affairs in the military town, and implement militarized management. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, military towns were set up on the northern and southern borders, with the same level of administrative districts, which was about the same as the administrative level of the state.

The Northern Wei Dynasty set up six military towns in the northern border area to defend against the southward movement of the Rouran tribe.

These six military towns are Woye Town, Huaishuo Town, Wuchuan Town, Fuming Town, Rouxuan Town, and Huaihuang Town. The people who govern the military and civilians in each town are called "town generals", and there are deputy generals. The Tang Dynasty also set up towns in key border areas, divided into three classes (upper town, middle town, lower town), each with town generals, town deputy records, and military members.

Although this can make the integration of military and civilian get along very well, it also increases the possibility that the military town may stand on its own.

For example, the Six Towns Rebellion that occurred later.

In the fifth year of Zhengguang of the Northern Wei Dynasty (524 AD), a turmoil was initiated by the soldiers of the six northern towns and the people of all ethnic groups.

The cause of the turmoil was that after the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved south to Luoyang, the treatment and promotion of the Xianbei nobles and soldiers in the six towns were not as good as those of the Xianbei nobles in Luoyang, and finally launched a major rebellion.

In the last years of Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the politics were corrupt, the powerful were extravagant, the guards were tyrannical, the military service was heavy, and the people fled or depended on the powerful. The generals of the six towns (mostly the nobles of the Tuoba tribe and their members or the children of the Central Plains Qiangzong) who had been guarding the north for a long time were dissatisfied with the sudden drop in treatment, so the Six Towns Uprising broke out in the fourth year of Zhengguang (523), and the Guanlong and Hebei ethnic groups rose up to respond, and the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

Since the reform of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the six towns have become a problem left over from history after the reform. When Tuoba Xianbei was founded, the army it relied on was mainly tribal soldiers of Xianbei people, and the soldiers were very high and brave in battle. After the capital was moved to Luoyang, the tribal soldiers were divided, and those who moved into Henan were Yulin and Huben, and the nobles were in the same column as the scholars; on the contrary, those who guarded the six towns in the border areas gradually degenerated from the "heart and soul of the country" to the towns and government households, and their status was low, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among the soldiers and people of the six towns. In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the bureaucratic system was corrupted and the economy declined, and the six towns became the focus of various social problems.

As a result, in the first year of Emperor Xiaoming Xiaochang (525), armed uprisings broke out in the six towns, and the former minions of the country have now become "traitors" against the Northern Wei regime. Although the Northern Wei Dynasty marched into the army to suppress it many times, it still did not calm down the chaos, and finally had to rely on the Rouran soldiers resisted by the original six towns to suppress the chaos.

However, although the chaos was peaceful, the resettlement of the soldiers and civilians in the six towns became a thorny social problem, which also led to a larger-scale Hebei uprising led by Ge Rong in the future......

Beizhen does not have a state and county, and the people are led by towns and soldiers, and they are called townspeople, mainly Xianbei Tuoba people, and their status is higher. With the expansion of the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Han and other ethnic groups were forced to move to the border.

After Emperor Wencheng, prisoners were constantly assigned to garrison the border, and the status of the townspeople declined day by day. After Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, the political and economic center moved south, and Beizhen lost its important military position. The nobles of various ethnic groups, including Tuoba, who entered the Central Plains, accelerated the sinicization and feudalization, while Beizhen still maintained the tendency of Xianbei, and the townspeople were called "Fuhu", which belonged to the military government, and were hereditary soldiers and were not allowed to move. The treatment and promotion of the Xianbei and Xianbei nobles and soldiers in the six towns were not as good as those of the Xianbei nobles in Luoyang [2]. This policy of excluding the Xianbei warriors could also be seen in Luoyang, the capital at that time, which led to a rebellion in the forbidden army. [3] In the later period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor among the townspeople in Beizhen intensified. The rulers of the military towns were the main generals, the staff members, and the powerful people, who were dissatisfied with the Northern Wei government because they could not serve as court officials. The vast number of the ruled townspeople were bullied and enslaved by the main generals, staff members, and powerful people, their land was stripped of their land, and they were subjected to heavy official and private labor, and they were also regarded as "northerners" by the Luoyang government and discriminated against. Many of the townspeople of Beizhen are from Gaoche and Shanhu, and they keep in touch with the native people who live in Seyne. Shanhu has lived in Fenxi and northern Shaanxi for a long time. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Shanhu included in the household were responsible for renting and transferring labor, and the Shanhu that were not part of the prefecture and county were still under the jurisdiction of the chieftain, and the Northern Wei government often forcibly recruited soldiers among them, and sometimes forcibly relocated. Gaoche was divided into two parts, east and west, and has always retained the tribal organization, living in the area of the six towns and Biansai, and undertaking military service and gongna obligations to the Northern Wei government.

The government of the Northern Wei Dynasty appointed the chiefs of Shanhu and Gaoche as the chieftains of the people or other official positions to rule over the people of their own nationality who were not listed as households. In the place where the town was changed to a state, the chieftain became a local surname, and was promoted by the government, the state and the county. Therefore, they and the Luoyang government have both contradictions and the same interests......

And Wang Meng's original intention of wanting to establish a military town is good, Wuchuan Town needs a new order and a new atmosphere, and it can't be as chaotic as the military town, sitting on the ground and raising prices.

After all, Wang Meng himself is from the common people, but he is very knowledgeable, and he also knows the most about the point that the people crave the most - stability.

Whoever can rectify the chaos in the world and establish a new order in the fastest time will be supported and supported by the people......

Therefore, if Ling Hao wanted to establish order in Wuchuan Town in the fastest time, he must establish a team to maintain order in the market town.

Then, there is no other quicker and more one-and-done way than to integrate the military and civilians.

But in this way, the problem of military-civilian integration will also be highlighted.

First of all, the integration of the military and the people at the same time, it may also cause the problem of the army disturbing the people, not to mention, if there are a few more ill-intentioned guys who encourage the townspeople to rise up because of the entanglement of interests, it will be bad, and the bridge of the military town uprising is likely to be repeated in this world.

Therefore, in response to this problem, Ling Hao also immediately put forward six key points:

First, control the number of town troops.

A very important reason why the Six Towns Uprising was able to create such a big momentum was that each military town had at least about 100,000 soldiers and civilians living in the military towns, and the six military towns together had hundreds of thousands of people......

Not to mention that there are all kinds of people among the soldiers of the six towns, such as Xianbei, Han and even Huns, so it is definitely very fierce to fight.

Therefore, the most important question raised by Ling Hao is that the number of troops should not be too much, but it should not be too small, and after careful consideration, Ling Hao, Wang Meng and others decided to control the number of the town army at about 8,000.

These 8,000 men were young men who had been carefully selected from among the exiles of Luoyi, and they would be responsible for the defense of Wuchuan Town, and they would also enjoy the same treatment that no one else had: meat.

But the premise of eating meat is that the basic order of Wuchuan Town must be maintained, all the daily training must be completed, and the small commander should have at least the strength of the ground lock or so.

These 8,000 people will be divided into eight teams, handed over to the post to inspect the various geographical areas of Wuchuan Town, once it is found that there is a dispute between the townspeople, it is natural to stop it as soon as possible, in addition, the daily weight of 20 kilograms of training must be completed, otherwise they will be eliminated.

These training items were carried out by Ling Hao in accordance with the special forces training of later generations:

First, you have to get up at 7 o'clock in the morning, add 20 kilograms of weight to each person, and run back and forth around the boundary of Wuchuan Town for 5 kilometers.

Second, start training at 8 o'clock to go up and down the hook ladder 300 times. 300 trips through 30 meters of barbed wire.

Third: holding an iron halberd and a club, and hanging a green brick with a rope from the muzzle, it was basked motionless for an hour.

Fourth: Practice riding and archery kung fu for half an hour, and then practice reverse kung fu (jump 1.5 meters high and backwards and smash your back to the ground) to play

Only those who have completed the above training can enjoy the treatment of meat, otherwise they can only be eliminated from the competition.

In this way, if anyone dares to be lazy, then what awaits them can only be eliminated.

In this world, there are very few opportunities to eat meat, and if they don't want to be eliminated, they have to do their best to complete these training programs.

Of course, there will certainly be no shortage of injured sergeants during the training process, and at this time, it is time for the medical staff to be on the field.

For example, those whom Ling Hao had previously selected from among the children of slaves would be given the same treatment as sergeants, but at the same time they would also have to learn how to help their own sergeants on the battlefield.

Wang Meng still remembers very clearly that when Ling Hao first asked Hua Tuo to teach them, these boys and girls vomited a lot, because anatomy was too "shocking" in this era, which made it really difficult for teenagers who had only received traditional medicine to accept.

But soon, they gradually adapted to this state, and began to seriously think about the feasibility, in addition, these medical staff also need to be trained, but their training volume is only half of that of the Wuchuan town army, and the female medical staff only need to carry five kilograms.

Anyway, with Hua Tuo, the most reliable teacher, to teach by word and deed, it is not a problem for them to be proficient in human science and traditional medicine in this world.

Second, change the model of the army.

Ling Hao knew very well that if the Wuchuan Town Army was only used to maintain order, then this army seemed to be a bit overkill, strict training is certainly one thing, on the other hand, the training of the army must also be accompanied by actual combat drills, otherwise no matter how much training is done, it will still be a new recruit.

Therefore, Ling Hao came up with the following method, in addition to daily training, there will be an additional combat drill every week, the eight town armies will be divided into eight detachments, each detachment of 1,000 people, the sergeants will be armed with wooden sticks, wooden swords, wooden shields, wooden guns, relying on different formations to confront each other, so that on the one hand, it can increase the flexibility and cooperation of the army, on the other hand, it can also eliminate some of the "individual heroism" among them.

Third, clarify the rules of reward and punishment.

If Wuchuan Town is severely attacked by the enemy in the future, the town sergeant can receive the corresponding reward according to the number of enemies killed for each enemy killed, and if the number of people is large, the team will cooperate to kill the enemy, and the reward will be multiplied several times.

In addition to the reward, each sergeant of the town army will receive a special allowance of 100 yuan, and in case of death, their family will also receive a large amount of compensation, and they themselves will be recorded on the Heroes Monument of Wuchuan Town as heroes who have guarded Wuchuan Town, so that the townspeople of Wuchuan Town will always remember them.

In addition, the medical staff were equally rewarded for each sergeant they helped, but it was one level lower than the sergeant's reward.

If there is a reward, there will be a punishment, and the punishment for violating military discipline is also extremely severe, ranging from push-ups and pull-ups to 500 pull-ups, and 20 military sticks.

The military sticks in this world are not as long as the TV series, it is said to be a military stick, but in fact, it is a large mallet, these twenty big sticks and mallets are smashed down, and the physical fitness is almost almost afraid that he will die on the spot, where can he still beat dozens or hundreds of military sticks like in the TV series, and after a few days, he can jump alive again.

Fourth, emphasis is placed on military discipline.

The duty of a soldier is to obey orders and listen to the command of the officer, rather than rushing up to be tough with others, which will not only not kill the enemy, but also take his own life, so discipline and consistency between the army are particularly important.

Therefore, Ling Hao copied the provisions of the three major disciplines and eight points of attention in later generations to strictly require all the officers and soldiers of the Wuchuan Town Army to abide by them

The so-called three major disciplines refer to: obey the command in all actions, do not take a single money or grain from the people, return all seizures to the public, and distribute them uniformly after the war.

The so-called eight points of attention are: speak kindly, buy and sell fairly, repay borrowed goods, compensate for damaged things, do not beat and curse people, do not damage crops, do not molest women, and do not abuse prisoners.

A strong army often has to have strong enough discipline to restrain it, otherwise it will be a straggler and a rabble.

Fifth, it is necessary to enhance the culture of the armed forces.

This is also a very important point, if the army will only obey orders, and does not know how to use the tactical thinking of the right time and place to turn the tide, then this army will be wiped out sooner or later.

Of course, Ling Hao doesn't want the phenomenon of "study, learn a fart!" in the army, not to mention both civil and military, but the basic literacy and hyphenation still have to be understood, although considering the limited literacy level of this era, but with the strong support of the Ling Mansion, everyone in the Wuchuan Town Army today can understand some basic literary knowledge, and can also write some basic documents to transmit information......

Sixth, strengthen military-civilian relations.

In addition to the above-mentioned disciplines, the relationship between the military and the civilian population must also be systematically taught, so that the sergeants understand that only if they themselves do not commit any crimes, the people will support them.

Therefore, Ling Hao demanded that after the sergeants finished their daily training projects, they should quickly form an inspection team to inspect all kinds of situations in Wuchuan Town, and when necessary, the sergeants must also learn to make simple iron weapons and protective equipment, and also pay attention to the changes and contradictions between the townspeople at all times, so that they can become a qualified sergeant.

When Wang Meng arrived at the Beizhen training ground, Su Lie was leading at the front, shouting while leading: "Hurry up, have you eaten all the meat at noon?"

This Su Lie, who usually looks polite and polite, looks like an old god, but when he trains the sergeants, he is like a grumpy teacher, and he encounters direct corporal punishment who dares to disobey his orders and dare to talk back to himself.

I heard that there were originally a few soldiers who relied on their strength to grab the meat from the bowls of other sergeants after completing their training, Su Lie called a few of them to him to "educate" him, and now seeing Su Lie one by one is like a mouse seeing a cat, I don't know how honest I am.

"This Su Lie, he is a good hand at training and commanding troops, and his son is really prescient. Wang Meng couldn't help but sigh.

"Eh, Mr. Wang, don't say it, Brother Su has been like a different person since he started to lead this group of soldiers, and he usually teaches them in the method of the military book, not to mention how honest he is now. ”

"Well, didn't Childe also say that whether an army is strong or not is not only a matter of the army itself, but also the army."